The Faces of Injustice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Faces of Injustice write by Judith N. Shklar. This book was released on 1990-01-01. The Faces of Injustice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How can we distinguish between injustice and misfortune? What can we learn from the victims of calamity about the sense of injustice they harbor? In this book a distinguished political theorist ponders these and other questions and formulates a new political and moral theory of injustice that encompasses not only deliberate acts of cruelty or unfairness but also indifference to such acts. Judith N. Shklar draws on the writings of Plato, Augustine, and Montaigne, three skeptics who gave the theory of injustice its main structure and intellectual force, as well as on political theory, history, social psychology, and literature from sources as diverse as Rosseau, Dickens, Hardy, and E. L. Doctorow. Shklar argues that we cannot set rigid rules to distinguish instances of misfortune from injustice, as most theories of justice would have us do, for such definitions would not take into account historical variability and differences in perception and interest between the victims and spectators. From the victim's point of view--whether it be one who suffered in an earthquake or as a result of social discrimination--the full definition of injustice must include not only the immediate cause of disaster but also our refusal to prevent and then to mitigate the damage, or what Shklar calls passive injustice. With this broader definition comes a call for greater responsibility from both citizens and public servants. When we attempt to make political decisions about what to do in specific instances of injustice, says Shklar, we must give the victim's voice its full weight. This is in keeping with the best impulses of democracy and is our only alternative to a complacency that is bound to favor the unjust.
Ordinary Vices
Ordinary Vices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ordinary Vices write by Judith N. Shklar. This book was released on 1984. Ordinary Vices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The seven deadly sins of Christianity represent the abysses of character, whereas Shklar's "ordinary vices"--cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy--are merely treacherous shoals, flawing our characters with mean-spiritedness and inhumanity. Shklar draws from a brilliant array of writers--Moliere and Dickens on hypocrisy, Jane Austen on snobbery, Shakespeare and Montesquieu on misanthropy, Hawthorne and Nietzsche on cruelty, Conrad and Faulkner on betrayal--to reveal the nature and effects of the vices. She examines their destructive effects, the ambiguities of the moral problems they pose to the liberal ethos, and their implications for government and citizens: liberalism is a difficult and challenging doctrine that demands a tolerance of contradiction, complexity, and the risks of freedom.
The Faces of Racism
The Faces of Racism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Faces of Racism write by Vladimir Prempin. This book was released on 2024-06-24. The Faces of Racism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Say no to racism and never look away again! This book is about the faces of racism. These are mainly presented and clarified with the help of the author's own experiences with this destructive virus. Many see it, but only few people dare to do something against racism. Through this book, we see how we can best tackle this virus and gain courage to at least stand up to it. This book is intended to inspire everyone to live racism critically and also give us clarity on why it is so important to fight this virus in our lives. It may be that you are not aware of how many times you have been treated badly or discriminated against for racial reasons in your life, but one thing is certain, it doesn't matter what skin color or origin you have, this topic, racism, affects us all. Today, it hurts me, but tomorrow, it can affect you. So what are we waiting for? Let us eradicate this virus from our lives once and for all to leave a safe, peaceful, and above all, a just world for future generations.
Justice and the Politics of Difference
Justice and the Politics of Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Justice and the Politics of Difference write by Iris Marion Young. This book was released on 2011-09-11. Justice and the Politics of Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements that were created by marginal and excluded groups, including women, African Americans, and American Indians, as well as gays and lesbians. Young argues that by assuming a homogeneous public, democratic theorists fail to consider institutional arrangements for including people not culturally identified with white European male norms. Consequently, theorists do not adequately address the problems of an inclusive participatory framework. Basing her vision of the good society on the culturally plural networks of contemporary urban life, Young makes the case that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group differences"--Provided by publisher.
Drawn to Injustice
Drawn to Injustice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drawn to Injustice write by Timothy Masters. This book was released on 2012-06-05. Drawn to Injustice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Timothy Masters was a lonely, troubled teenager with a penchant for gory artwork when he first saw Peggy Lee Hettrick… …her dead, mutilated body nearly frozen in the early morning of Fort Collins, Colorado. Not believing it could really be a dead body, thinking he was the victim of yet another prank by his abusive classmates, the fifteen-year-old didn’t go to the police—but they came to him. So began a decade-long investigation led by a relentless detective who was sure that Masters was the killer, even without a shred of physical evidence. Against all reason, a conspiracy of silence and circumstantial evidence eventually put Masters behind bars. Only the determination of a lone investigator who believed the young man was innocent would reveal the shocking truth, and free Masters after ten years in prison. This is the compelling true story of one life ended in blood and murder, one life ruined by coincidence and prejudice, and justice long denied but finally found.
